{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But as, in what follows, Celsus, not understanding that the\r\nlanguage of Scripture regarding God is adapted to an anthropopathic\r\npoint of view, ridicules those passages which speak of\r\nwords of anger addressed to the ungodly, and of threatenings\r\ndirected against sinners, we have to say that, as we ourselves,\r\nwhen talking with very young children, do not aim at exerting\r\nour own power of eloquence,<a id=\"r760\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f760\"><sup>[760]</sup></a> but, adapting ourselves to the\r\nweakness of our charge, both say and do those things which\r\nmay appear to us useful for the correction and improvement\r\nof the children as children, so the word of God appears to have\r\ndealt with the history, making the capacity of the hearers, and\r\nthe benefit which they were to receive, the standard of the\r\nappropriateness of its announcements [regarding Him]. And,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_237\">237</span>generally, with regard to such a style of speaking about God,\r\nwe find in the book of Deuteronomy the following: “The\r\nLord thy God bare with your manners, as a man would bear\r\nwith the manners of his son.”<a id=\"r761\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f761\"><sup>[761]</sup></a> It is, as it were, assuming the\r\nmanners of a man in order to secure the advantage of men that\r\nthe Scripture makes use of such expressions; for it would not\r\nhave been suitable to the condition of the multitude, that what\r\nGod had to say to them should be spoken by Him in a manner\r\nmore befitting the majesty of His own person. And yet he\r\nwho is anxious to attain a true understanding of Holy Scripture,\r\nwill discover the spiritual truths which are spoken by it to those\r\nwho are called “spiritual,” by comparing the meaning of what\r\nis addressed to those of weaker mind with what is announced\r\nto such as are of acuter understanding, both meanings being\r\nfrequently found in the same passage by him who is capable\r\nof comprehending it.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter LXXI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-292"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9a6ddd5b7ab7f8f0fe1c8f9863a516fecfd74e62aea217e4b0554c3eb5bf38bf","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"DEU","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Deut. i. 31","verse":31,"verse_end":31}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f761","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1872 English edition; listed translators died 1889 and 1872. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f761","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f761\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r761\">761</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Deuteronomy\">Deut.</abbr> <abbr title=\"one\">i.</abbr> 31. Origen appears to have read, not <span lang=\"grc\">ἐτροφορησεν</span>, the common\r\nreading (<abbr title=\"Hebrew\">Heb.</abbr> <span lang=\"hbo\">נָשָׂא</span>), but <span lang=\"grc\">ἐτροποφορησεν</span>, the reading of the Codex\r\nAlex.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f761","text_sha256":"caba0bd7dc41be0be986b4d41b39aa1cd633b062e73abc2cfcc95fbe22b18185","verified":false,"work_id":null}